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Of the Hittone of Plants, 
«(] The Place. 
Kidney Beanes doe eafily and foone fpring vp, and glow intoa very great length bein'* feu re 
neere to long poles faftneti hard by them.or hard by arbors or bafltjUet'i'tig pjace'^otliVin ifetlicy iie 
Baton the ground, flewly come vp,hardiy bring forth fruit, and become fauitieand fmutcd,as Thco. 
pbrajhts writeth. 
It is fovvnein the Spring, elpecially in the nridftof April, but not before :the fruit is ripe about 
the end of Sommer. 
Hippocra' ft, Dmks,fheophra(lus, and moft ol the other old. Writers do call it *•*.*, « diners of the 
bignefle of the feed do name it ««<• and kc, • in Latine,S/%«a .• Diojcondts calleth kimilaxjaeca.uk 
it cliineth vp as Smilax doth,and taketh hold of props, ftaies, and fbrubbes ftanding neere vnto it : 
others name it • a X) tin in r tine dcriucd from : for and are not one and the felfe 
lame ptilfc called by diners names, as fome fuppofe,bu r fundry fruits one differing from the other 
as Galen in his firfl booke of the Faculties of Nourifhmenrs doth iiifficiently declare, where he in- 
trea-teth of them both. For firff he difputeth of Phajeli and Ochn, Beans, and Peafe • then afterward 
others commtng benveeae, he writeth of Dolichus, which alfo is named * Phajiolus : and though lice 
may be thought to doubt what mannei of pulfe that is which Thcophrajlus calleth Dolichus"- r.ot- 
with ftanding he gathert-th and cotlcludeth that it is a fruit of a garden plant iri Italy, and inCaria 
growing in the fields, which is in forme longer than the Ciclilings,and was commonly called in his 
time Fafiolus. Of his opinion is Paulas ^igmeta, writing of Phafdus, which lice nameth Dolichus , 111 
the 79 .chap, ot bis firft booke. Mortouer, Fafclus was in times paft a common pulfe in Italy Ind 
Rome, and Dolichus a ftrange pulfe ; for Columella and PaUadius, writers of husbandry, liauc made men- 
tion of the fowing of Phafelus : and Virgil calleth it Vtlis in the firft of his Georgicks : but concer- 
ning the fowing of Dolichus or Kidney Beane, none of the Larineshauc written, by rcafon that the 
fame was rare in ltaly,and fowne onely in gardens, as Galenhuh affirmed, naming it oftentynes a 
garden plant, and firewing that the fame, as we liaue faid,is fowne in Caria ; and likewife Dlcjcortdcs 
nameth it^vt ^.that is to fay, Smilax hortenfls, or garden Smilax, becaufc it gtoweth in gardens- 
who alfo writing of this in another feuerall chapter, flrewethplaineiy, that Smilax herlenfis ,or Do/t- 
chus is another plant differing from Fajelus, which he nameth Phafolus. 
Fov which caufes it is not tobedyubted, but that Phafdus with three fyllablcs, differeth from 
Fafeoius with' foure fyllab!es,no otherwife than Cicer^Cicercula, and Cicera differ, which notwithftan- 
ding be neere one to another in names : and it is not to be doubted but that they are dcceiued who 
thinke it tobe one and the felfe fame Pulfe called by fundry names. 
This plant is named in Enghfli, Kidney Beane, Speragc Beanes ; of fo-me, Fafelles, or long Pea- 
fon, FrcrichJBeaiies, garden Smilax, and Romane Beanes in French, F cites deRomme in Dutch 
■'Cutcbgfbooijcn, ■ 
Kidney Beanes, as Diofcorides teacheth,do more loofe the belly than Peafon ; they are lefTewindy 
and noiirifb well, and nok-ft'e than Peafon,as Diodes faith : they be alfo without ingendrin° windi- 
neffeatall - the Arabian Phyfirions fay that they are hot and moift of nature. 
The Vertices. 
A The fruit and cods ofKidney Beanes boiled together before they be ripe, and buttered, and fo 
eaten with their cods, are exceeding delicate meat, and do not ingender wind e as the other Pulfes 
doe. 
B They doe alfo gently loofe the belly, prouoke vrine,and ingender good blond rcafonably well; 
but if you eat them when theyberipe, they are neither tooth'fomenorwholfome. Therefore they 
are to be taken whifeft they are yetgreeneand tender, which are firft boiled vntill they be tender . 
then is the tib or finew thatdotb run alongft the cod tobe taken away ; then muft they beput into 
a ftone pipkin.or fome other yeflell with butter, and let to the fire againe to flew, or boile gently: 
which meat is very wholfome,nourifhing,andofapleafanttafte. 1 
«(f The Time. 
The Names. 
The Temperature. 
Chap. 5051. Of the fat "Beane called Lupine. 
51 The Defcripion. 
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'He tame or garden Lupine hath round hard Items, which of themfelucs do ftandvn- 
rrght without any fuccour,heJp or ftay ; the leaues confift of fiue,fix,or feuen ioined to- 
